Well, excuse me, but that's exponentially fewer bears than humans in our beloved state. It is the humans who are encroaching on the bears' natural environment.

How many tens of thousands of people are moving to Colorado to add to the several million who live here? Just as an example, how much more traffic and congestion is there just here in Boulder? The bears are not moving to Colorado; this is their natural environment. It is their home. Humans choose to make it their home.

I don't have a problem with a hunter who shoots a deer, for example, with one shot and uses the meat to feed his family. But I've never heard of anyone who eats bear "meat," thus making bear hunting trophy hunting (aka animal murder).

He criticizes the Humane Society of the United States, the Sierra Club, and the Audubon Society. Those of us who support the work of these organizations do so because they advocate for the innocent animals who cannot speak for themselves. I find it reprehensible that Mr. Lohr refers to their activities as "meddling." This is not meddling. This is doing what is morally right and necessary to protect innocent, sentient, intelligent animals from humans who look for any excuse to murder them.

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